ethereal crystals are 5% from ghosts around at night, i do agree Caro should make that and the slime gem rare drop a little more common, but yeah, it's just bad luck
it's literally in the game's page on here, in the "about" on patreon and "about" in the game's main menu, accessible to anyone. i did leave some invite links to other people asking for it in these last few threads too.
(There are a few channels dedicated to patrons in the server, but most is public).
Uh, he pops up every now and then on his server, last message was 13 days ago, but he has never been too active, socially speaking. The last 2 updates in particular involved a big effort for the battle system and the content (story, dungeon, scenes) respectively, so he got a bit burned out. About the people... they sound fine and patient over there to me, feel free to get in and have a look around if you want, mingle with the other fans while you wait~.
There are cheats to get gold, exp and even scenes faster for $5 patrons. A more immediate way would be to ask someone for their save or... expect Caro to code in a checkpoint system, which could be hard to do, prone to many bugs and even abusable.
you misunderstood, it has never been possible. some made the points 3 and 3 to save both the spy and the hanged lizard, but lose nauxus as dateable in neutral like that, or do something else by killing the spy.
really, if you go neutral, you can have thane and nauxus too, if he liked you more than axel, while axel is locked in the bull route regardless.
for the THIRD time, getting the neutral/good ending of the war is possibile regardless of the choices, just visit thane before going with the chief's plan at the very end and buy that emblem in the demon city's auction, then visit the painting at the bull temple.
The choices and their consequences are listed in that tab you sent. < and > are those symbols used in simple algebra to say "less" and "more", <= and >= are "less or equal" or "more or equal". so, for the lizards being hanged, for example, if Axel's suspicion points are less or equal to 3, you can save them.
Of course, you can't save everyone and get every "husband" and their scenes in one playthrough, it's part of the reason there are multiple routes.
If you need a more detailed explanation and you can't find it despite the bookmarks and the ctrl+F search function of your browser, here it is, right at page 28 of the guide: "route/good ending: in the middle of both routes (see above for more details), when you can explore freely, go check on Thane at the tavern, he’ll still be weak, but the important thing is receiving the bloody cloth from him. Now you need to visit the painting in the bull temple, and this means you need to have the skull emblem (guaranteed after defeating the skull demon in “the first boss”) AND the soul emblem, which needs to be bought during the auction in “saving the master”, if you didn’t then...sorry, nothing you can do to find the truth now"
(that is in the last part of the war, when the chief that likes you more calls you for their final plan)
("saving the master" is the quest to save Flo in the demon city)
don't go in older threads, you can make another, read the guide i told you about on the front page, or ask on the server (unless the link doesn't work, then i can send one). It's also written a few messages above you just need to get thane's cloth in the last part of the war and visit the painting in the temple with the emblem bought in the demon city's auction
there are 3 badges, they give different rewards via the ferryman in the cave and they let you find Bread in there (jester aside) (also different bevocr value at the pawn shop, i guess).
About the fight tho, the king can have halved HP with the knight badge or skip the fight and give you a +1 CHA equipment instead of the blade piece. See the guide if you wanna know the ferryman rewards
from my guide: "For the last part of the war, you just need to have completed part 4, check both tribes and then go to sleep in your room and the game will ask you if you are ready; this part also requires you to be at least on day 35 (or day 40 if you haven’t completed “saving the master”)."
(part 4 being the fruit festival and saving the master being the demon city thing).
The lizards being hanged means nauxus likes you more (based on a hidden suspicion points counter altered by your choices, see the guide for more info), so you'll either go for neutral or lizard route (unless they had the same score, then bull route has priority.)
i'm busy with university and helping on some other projects, i doubt it's coming before April, but the other players in the discord are always glad to help
i only know the usual "browser asks where you want to save your download, save your .zip wherever you want, and extract it with winrar and run the game .exe" (except the phone .apk, i guess). I am speaking for anything running windows, it is probably the same for a mac though
i don't see why not, should be windows. in the worst case, delete and try another, just download, extract and see if it runs as always, should be a fast process
every size has a different scene, aside from that, you can fully corrupt it if it absorbs 100 corruption from you (it absorbs 10 at every feeding) and it fights you, it's either a game over or you get its core. more interactions and presumably an use for the core will come, so i'd keep it alive
those are motivated by making 4 (with the added variable of nauxus being dateable in neutral or not based on your choices) different routes with crucial story differences that justify some of them being into you or not, playing all of them takes a bit but offers a lot more story and background (plus you can skip seen dialogue to speed up), and they are part of the "reward" that incentivizes playing each one. Even if we take bottoming and topping enemies as its own thing, can you imagine if we had different dialogues and scenes for every npc we commit romantically to? that's doable in more traditional VNs and dating sims where a route is solely based on that, this game is a middle ground where that has to have less focus (and, c'mon, how many play every single route in those? you tend to pick your fav in bigger games, how many would legit commit to, say, Selye?). Anyway, deeper romance will eventually come for more npcs, i just think Caro will make it so you don't have to lock yourself to someone unless it's for plot-related choices
you may not be considering that some deeper romantic commitment could come later on in the game, if i am not mistaken, Caro does want to build up the relationships very slowly, even though thane and nauxus are probably the most "boyfriended" ones for now. There is also the option of a poly or an open relationship to boyfriend more and/or bang around freely anyway, which would work for the obvious thing that players want to see every scene they can, so being limited by committing or not would be a bit of a chore for who wants to see everything (and potentially tons of variables for who and how many you boyfriended;). All the additional work would also have to be done considering that... some would never see it, since various npcs can die in various routes, and not everyone plays every route.
... Nauxus does have the best character and moments for me too tho~ even if my fav is Witer, slightly, but i'd go for an open poly anyway, so whatever~
so... no porting from unity to unreal? no world 2, battle system improvements, all those ideas for scenes or choices (like staying in the rack or obeying more or less when the villain offered something)? i saw something with the small bitey bots all around our "hero" and thought more horse scenes were planned
...Never, renpy always saves data in your hidden appdata folder in users too, that's how you can safely delete your old version when you download an update and still have all your saves (and gallery).
Make sure you can view hidden files too (it's a setting you can tweak while you are looking in any folder), it should be in your pc -> users -> (your username) -> appdata -> roaming -> renpy -> tvern of spear-1. you should see all your saves, the persistent one and a sync folder, with more in, anyway, try experimenting a bit: i'd try deleting the saves from the game folder (game -> saves) and see if it all works, or copy and paste those in appdata in the saves folder (copy and paste the folders in a safe spot, maybe on the desktop, so you don't risk losing anything regardless of what you do). You could even take saves out and leave none or one or two in, who knows, maybe it's a specific save fucking everything up the instant it pops up in the saves screen in the game.
if the exception is gone and not able to be reproduced, i guess it's fine. yes, the cap becomes 25 after the war properly ends, the game explicitly tells you and all, so don't skip text and try after you see that
the new attacks are public too, i could send the screens on discord, but you may wanna come anyway for a more immediate feedback, maybe make a short vid too, showing it happens with a fresh save and your current one.
Could also be you just screwing up the saves transfer, did you copy the hidden appdata folder when you did? or just the saves in the game folder?
